David Gans
@dgans.bsky.social
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Musician, author, radio host. Oakland CA
https://perfectible.net
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Ron Filipkowski
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The left joins with right against the middle takes on the Trump/Mamdani meeting are way off. There is nothing substantive here. There will be no policy breakthroughs. That’s not what this is about. It’s about a young smart guy who knew how to play an old fool who worships stars.
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Making Dark Chocolate Hilarious
Dark chocolate is very serious business. That’s why this ad for Bournville dark chocolate, which takes aim at dark chocola
https://kottke.org/25/11/making-dark-chocolate-hilarious?u
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Michael Andres Palmieri, Ed.D.
1 day ago
This is what Democracy looks like. Zohran K Mamdani's Transition Team members, Lina Khan and Dean Fuleihan, joined Starbucks workers on the picket line because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for workers.
#UnionStrong
#TogetherWeRise
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David Roberts
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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Scott L Greer
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I think if you need to read one piece about the unpleasant last week in elite journalism and why it matters, read this by
@marisakabas.bsky.social
(and subscribe, she regularly breaks government and politics news you get elsewhere two weeks later)
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Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizza-rfk-jr-trump?utm_source=www.thehandbasket.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=moral-rot-in-elite-journalism-is-killing-the-whole-field&_bhlid=d26a2b948ad07f7268a9876472a88a0f40e03b94
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The Case Of The Sunburned Junk Ran Into God On the Bottom Rung Heart Bird Dream Leave Me After the Mountain What She Had Tattooed Across Her Heart These Apartments Wildfire Burning Trimmigration Blues An American Family Goin' Back To Humboldt
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David Gans, Joe Rut and Mokai Live at Luigi's Deli on 2025-11-19 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
d1t01 introductiond1t02 The Case Of The Sunburned Junkd1t03 Ran Into Godd1t04 On the Bottom Rungd1t05 Heart Bird Dreamd1t06 Leave Med1t07 After the...
https://archive.org/details/gans-rut-mokai2025-11-19.aud.gans.selleseth.flac16
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Small Is Beautiful — But It’s Not Enough
Why our environmental intuitions must evolve for the climate crisis
https://jrehmeyer.substack.com/p/small-is-beautiful-but-its-not-enough
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Jay Rosen
1 day ago
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends." The best thing I have read about her.
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-olivia-nuzzi-comeback-is-everything-wrong-with-modern-media/
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Robert Reich
1 day ago
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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My daily livestream starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3wj...
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David Gans 11/20/25 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3wjJTgvSs0
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Mueller, She Wrote
2 days ago
NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
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John Schwartz
3 days ago
Didn’t we FIGHT the swastika people?
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Robert Reich
3 days ago
Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes. Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.
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James Fallows
4 days ago
This is really interesting thread. (About apparently gross incompetence by MAGA/Trump favored Mar-a-Lago-look prosecutor for Comey case) To put it in perspective: This much incompetence in aviation world could have led to hundreds of deaths. It *would* have led to punishment and accountability.
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www.ashkenaz.com/donate
A VERY Dead-friendly venue in the Bay Area needs our help!
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Donate — Ashkenaz
https://www.ashkenaz.com/donate
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PUNMASTER MusicWire by David Gross
A trusted source of music news since 1873 ~ All the news that's fit to be tied
https://musicwire.substack.com/p/punmaster-musicwire-by-david-gross-cc6
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TONIGHT 6:30-8:30 at Luigi’s in Martinez CA. Excellent sandwiches, too!
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊
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Angie Coiro
5 days ago
Holy crap, if this isn't the ultimate "don't look behind the curtain" strategy. Don't question why things are the way they are; don't look at who's orchestrating it; don't even consider changing it. Focus on trimming your holiday gift list. For fuck's sake.
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My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJGI...
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David Gans 11/17/25 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJGIBsACb1Y
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CBS sucks, ABC commits a journalism — and other tales from the Sunday shows
and Donny is losing bigly — and he knows it
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/cbs-sucks-abc-commits-a-journalism
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he’s trash. she’s trash. it’s a Sunday trash-fest!
all these shitweasels are made for each other
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/hes-trash-shes-trash-its-a-sunday
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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1939 Week of November 17, 2025 Part 1 36:09 Grateful Dead 12/30/83 San Francisco Civic Auditorium DRUMS-> SPACE-> MIND LEFT BODY JAM-> TRUCKIN'-> WHARF RAT
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I am happy about this little jam I did at the end of my daily live set:
www.youtube.com/live/AFSyoqx...
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David Gans 11/14/25 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
https://www.youtube.com/live/AFSyoqxzt_0?si=BmxZpQo8ehiiG8gr&t=3214
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My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern
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David Gans 11/14/25 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFSyoqxzt_0
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Marc Elias
9 days ago
This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms: ✅He personally directs criminal investigations. ✅He is targeting opponents. ✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents. Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
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My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern
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David Gans 11/12/25 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_b43J-do8
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Erika Lee Sears
11 days ago
Grapefruit 😇
#art
#oilpainting
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Trump Even Lost Laura Ingraham
Her interview of Trump yesterday exposed his hypocrisy and true priorities; even MAGA is starting to peel away.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump-even-lost-laura-ingraham
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Jim Marshall Photography – The Ecology Center
Join us for a special evening celebrating the release of The Grateful Dead by legendary photographer Jim Marshall. This gathering brings together music, imagery, and storytelling through a conversatio...
https://theecologycenter.org/event/jim-marshall-photography/
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stevethdemocrat
11 days ago
This is fantastic 😂
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A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a raid on a small-town newspaper
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in 2023.
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-newspaper-raid-press-freedom-c18f46a215908198335ca6f608c3360b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-11-Breaking+News
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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David M. Perry
12 days ago
I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.
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David M. Perry
12 days ago
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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We aren’t posting new ones any more, but here is a repository of GD Hours on DeadNet:
www.dead.net/features/gdh...
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GD Radio Hour | Grateful Dead
Official Site Of The Grateful Dead
https://www.dead.net/features/gdhour
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Doc McDoom, Dinosaur Doctor
12 days ago
The Trump admin is a Make-a-Wish Foundation for idiots and we all have to suffer through them getting up to a high school sophomore level of economic and scientific knowledge.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/rfk-jr-directs-cdc-study-alleged-harms-offshore-wind-farms-bloomberg-news-2025-10-28/
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Robert Reich
13 days ago
Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors. Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor. Reverse Robin Hood.
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Fiat Lux Redux: The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall – KALX 90.7FM Berkeley
https://kalx.berkeley.edu/fiat-lux-redux-the-grateful-dead-by-jim-marshall/
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Miranda Yaver
14 days ago
Democrats just swept the off-year elections -- and not just in blue states -- a resounding rejection of Republicans' authoritarian bullshit. It is an insult to Democratic voters, marketplace enrollees, and everyone who turned out on Tuesday for Schumer and Jeffries to cave.
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My daily live performance starts at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern
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David Gans 11/9/25 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOacmtSr2Jg
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Lint Hasenpfeffer
14 days ago
First rule of Dunning-Kruger club, you dont know you're in Dunning-Kruger club
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CHOAM for the holidays
15 days ago
Something lost in the prices/affordability convo is that dismantling regulators shifts a financial burden onto consumers. They’re at much greater risk from various forms of fraud and less likely to comparison shop because of the likelihood that an unfamiliar product will be dangerous or defective
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Sherrilyn Ifill
14 days ago
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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Simon Rosenberg
14 days ago
Some Sunday reflections on a very consequential week in our politics 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday Hopium - Recapping A Very Important Week In Our Politics
People are pissed, and we need to keep fighting
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-recapping-a-very-important
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Indivisible TN07 ❌👑
14 days ago
Everyone everywhere is invited to help out. This LAST CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION OF 2025 is in Tennessee and we could your help! FLIP this seat!
www.aftynforcongress.com
#AFTYN4Congress
#voteearlyvoteAFTYN
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All In For Aftyn: TN-07 Special Election Kickoff Call · Indivisible
### Indivisible is rolling up our sleeves and going All In For Aftyn. With big wins on Election Day and the wind at our backs for Dems, now's the perfect time to invest in fellow fighters like Aftyn...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/869063/?referring_vol=11528276&rname=Lynn&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link
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Yoni Appelbaum
14 days ago
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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